Parker Ortolani: Nearly two months after macOS Big Sur’s public release, the Apple human interface team has finally released an updated Sketch library optimized for its top to bottom redesign. User interface designers and developers have been anxiou…
Lees meerTucows (via Andy Baio): We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site. We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the In…
Lees meerPhil Stokes (Hacker News, Patrick Wardle): macOS.OSAMiner has evolved to use a complex architecture, embedding one run-only AppleScript within another and retrieving further stages embedded in the source code of public-facing web pages.Combining a p…
Lees meerOWC (via Dimka, MacInTouch): For the first time ever, the OWC Thunderbolt Hub lets you consolidate and simplify the connectivity between all your devices with all the Thunderbolt ports you’ve always wanted. The OWC Thunderbolt Hub’s four Thunderbolt…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: New universal chat app “Beeper” combines 15 different chat platforms into a single inbox and offers iMessage on Android and Windows (via The Verge).[…]The app is “using some trickery” to achieve this, with the website’s FAQ reveali…
Lees meerNathaniel Strauss: EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) no longer exists on Apple silicon and along with it has gone EFI passwords. In the past, EFI passwords secured recovery and prevented Macs from using most boot modifiers at startup. A user could…
Lees meerBen Thompson: In fact, the x86 business proved far too profitable to take such a radical step, which is the exact sort of “problem” that leads to disruption: yes, Intel avoided Microsoft’s fate, but that also means that the company never felt the fi…
Lees meerJeff Carlson: But the issue wasn’t just that Camo gives you better picture quality. I wanted to dig into why webcam technology is so far behind. Even today, in 2021, the Logitech C920 is recommended by many, many magazines and outlets as being the b…
Lees meerGian-Carlo Pascutto: Once the compiler was working, a similar exercise needed to be done with all the Rust crates we depend on. The need to update the compiler and the reliance of some crates on the exact compiler version, especially parts dealing w…
Lees meerSE-0298 (via David Smith, forum): Swift’s async/await feature provides an intuitive, built-in way to write and use functions that return a single value at some future point in time. We propose building on top of this feature to create an intuitive, …
Lees meerMaximilian Zinkus et al.: In Apple iOS we found a powerful and compelling set of security and privacy controls, backed and empowered by strong encryption. However, we also found a critical lack in coverage due to under-utilization of these tools. [……
Lees meerJohn Gruber: So the good news is that if you use Apple’s 18W adapter (which Apple provided with iPhones 11 Pro and iPads Pro, including the iPad Pro updates from March of this year) instead of their new 20W adapter (which Apple includes with the new…
Lees meerDrew Holden: Three years ago, America was locked in a battle for #NetNeutrality, and, by extension, life as we knew it. For the lucky few who survived, I invite you to join me on a quick stroll down memory lane to revisit the doom and gloom we were …
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi (tweet): All your reading in one place, multiple account support. Sync with all major RSS aggregator and read later provider or use it with built-in RSS engine. Feed and folder management for RSS services. Folder and tag management f…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: By now, I expected NSSavePanel.allowedContentTypes to work, and then to have Xcode suggest to wrap access to that property in an if-@available block. But that doesn’t work at all. With macOS 10.15 Catalina being my main dev machine…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: What Apple appears to be saying is an APFS Time Machine volume requires a single container that takes up the entire disk—you can’t add other containers, and that container has access to all the store space on the disk. Within that c…
Lees meerJosh Centers: Signal had a bumpy start, but it’s now a well-polished and full-featured messaging app available for the most common platforms: iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and Linux.[…]Every part of Signal is open source. The clients are published und…
Lees meerDon Melton (tweet): Most of you probably don’t know this but a little over five years ago I built my own gaming PC. […] While I certainly gamed my ass off with that homemade machine for awhile, it didn’t really become an essential device for me unti…
Lees meerJoanna Goodrich (via Hacker News): IEEE Life Fellow Jacob Ziv will receive this year’s IEEE Medal of Honor “for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership.”Ziv and Abrah…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: I’ve had some strange events in which my main working SSD sometimes vanishes from the Finder, although that external drive remains mounted normally. […] The first time that it happened, I assumed that the external SSD had somehow unmo…
Lees meerHarshil Shah (tweet): Going back to how Date works, it doesn’t model the actual clock time but rather a fixed point in time that can be interpreted in any time zone. And so what’s happening here is that the data is being interpreted as if it happene…
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